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Branch Rickey, the beefy, bushy-browed boss of the old Brooklyn Dodgers, was at his histrionic best. Scowling at the young black ballplayer seated in his office, he portrayed in turn a bigoted umpire deliberately making bad calls, a haughty railroad conductor pointing to the Jim Crow car, and a...
When Rickey startled the sports world in 1945 by announcing that Robinson would join the Dodgers farm team in Montreal, Minor League Commissioner W.G. Bramham called Rickey a "carpetbagger" and scoffed: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the...
Danny Ozark, a veteran minor league manager and former third base coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was named Wednesday as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.
He had been mentioned in some quarters as the heir apparent to Walter Alston when the Dodgers' veteran manager decides to call it a career.
But, Jackie Robinson was changing, too. After another year of spectacular performances for the Dodgers. Robinson met again with Branch Rickey, and this time, Rickey told him: "You've earned the right to be yourself, Jackie. You've given so much to the game that you are now in a...